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RE: XQuery and DTD/Schema?

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• Subject: RE: XQuery and DTD/Schema?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 12:09:49 -0400
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At 05:02 PM 7/3/2002 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
>Can you provide evidence for this?

Just conversations at conferences with editors of various 
specifications.  I fear I don't normally carry a tape recorder.

>I've done a search on the archives
>(it would have been easier if relax were not a normal English verb) and
>I can't find any. There are a number of individual messages that mention
>RELAX in passing, e.g. to illustrate alternative type semantics; but no
>minutes that indicate that RELAX has ever been discussed or "brushed
>aside".

I think there may be a difference between "being aware of something and 
discussing it privately" and "formally introducing it into the working 
group as an issue".

> > at one point I
> > understood the formal model had much more in common with
> > RELAX NG than with W3C XML Schema.
>
>That might well be true. Integration with Schema has certainly been at
>times a painful process: I never suggested otherwise.

I find it remarkable how many masochists appear to be on that committee.  I 
don't know how else to explain such a strange phenomenon.

Simon St.Laurent
"Every day in every way I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue

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